英语词汇“to come late to the party”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

e. to come (also arrive, be, etc.) late to the party and variants: to be involved in something at a later stage than others; to learn something that others have known about for a while.In quot. 1944 as part of an extended metaphor.

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1944 N.Y. Times 5 Oct. 21/2 To come late to the party is never very wise. The new-born are always doing it. They are always arriving late into a world warmed up by their elders.

1965 Washington Post 15 July d23/5 ABC-TV came late to this party. The network didn't decide to try a ‘live-on-tape’ show until last summer.

2006 S. China Morning Post (Nexis) 16 June 6 The sell-off in the stock market over the past five weeks has been painful, especially for buyers who arrived late to the party.

2015 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 9 Jan. 2 I realise I'm late to the party on watching most of the superhero films released over the past 14 years (so late to the party, that not only has it well and truly finished, the house the party was in has been sold, demolished, and turned into a car park).

单词	to come late to the party
释义	> as lemmas to come (also arrive, be, etc.) late to the party e. to come (also arrive, be, etc.) late to the party and variants: to be involved in something at a later stage than others; to learn something that others have known about for a while.In quot. 1944 as part of an extended metaphor. ΚΠ 1944 N.Y. Times 5 Oct. 21/2 To come late to the party is never very wise. The new-born are always doing it. They are always arriving late into a world warmed up by their elders. 1965 Washington Post 15 July d23/5 ABC-TV came late to this party. The network didn't decide to try a ‘live-on-tape’ show until last summer. 2006 S. China Morning Post (Nexis) 16 June 6 The sell-off in the stock market over the past five weeks has been painful, especially for buyers who arrived late to the party. 2015 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 9 Jan. 2 I realise I'm late to the party on watching most of the superhero films released over the past 14 years (so late to the party, that not only has it well and truly finished, the house the party was in has been sold, demolished, and turned into a car park). extracted from partyn. < as lemmas
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